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The Columbia History of the American NovelHurston was too ethnocentric even for the new racial awareness marking the literary movement in Harlem. Wallace Thurman satirized her antics in his novel about the Harlem Renaissance, Infants of the Spring (1932); the Hurston character, "Sweetie May Carr," is an opportunistic young artist frequenting Niggeratti Manor who is not embarrassed to manipulate white patrons with dialect tales of down South. Precisely because she had "spirit" and was not "a mealy mouthed rag doll," Hurston could take full advantage of her insider-outsider -422- position. She accepted not only the difference of her cultural heritage but also its validity. Through the folk she found a means of expressing a culturally grounded self and racial identity. She could therefore create images of African American life that are among the most powerful expressions of the strength and promise of African American culture in the United States. Jonah's Gourd Vine is an exploration of that culture based upon the position of Hurston's parents within it ...» |
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